Data files for "Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence" by Shay O'Brien for American Sociological Review

blue2.xlsx: An Excel file containing the Dallas elites and upper class database: the individual-level data, the kin ties edgelist, a list of organizations, and an edgelist connecting people to organizations. Note that I have deleted any individual who is possibly still living (anyone born after 1915 whose death year I do not have), which means that the denominators of the replication will differ from the results published. The main empirical patterns (persistence, propelling, etc.) should remain the same. 

codebook.pdf: A codebook for the blue2.xslx data. This is what you'll need to understand the basic structure of the data and to extend it to your own projects, if you'd like.

econelites.xlsx: An Excel file containing a series of spreadsheets linking individuals to various economic elite statuses (and in one case, a social elite status- the Linz Award). 

polelites.xlsx: An Excel file containing a series of spreadsheets linking individuals to various political elite statuses. 

replicationcode_KinshipInterlocksASR.R An R file containing all the code need to replicate the quantitative results of the paper. 

